There was a short-lived KFC commercial claiming the letters stood for "Kitchen Fresh Chicken." The ad showed a bunch of people in an office and someone said "There's kitchen fresh chicken in the break room" (or something along those lines). One of the workers then says, "Sounds gourmet!"
Ummmm, no. Sounds like greasy fast-food chicken to me!
So how do you weigh in on "damnit" vs. "dammit"? :)
Here in Seattle we just throw them in the ground and they come up year after year (although I recall it took about a year before they produced). However, the first time I cooked one I saw that it was infested with earwigs -- YECH! Haven't been able to eat another one since (we just let them flower now; they're really pretty!)
Steel-cut oats with fresh banana; Greek pitas with grilled chicken and home-made hummus and tzatziki sauce
I too have a jar of meringue powder (don't even remember what I was planning on making with it). Also, a jar of preserved lemons.
Pasta Haiku
My favorite dish:
Sausage, red sauce, lots of cheese
a la Sopranos
The noodles, you ask?
Small, 2-inch tubular shells
Straight; unlike elbows
Not the most healthy
Moderation is the key
I know my limits
But deny me this,
“What, no F@#*in’ ziti now?”
Hell to pay, for sure
I'm happy to say that my parents -- ages 79 and 81 -- are both very adventuresome when it comes to food, so I don't think there's anything they wouldn't approve of. My mom used to prepare a lot of things with hamburger, and "Beanie Bake" -- canned baked beans with hot dogs topped with French's fried onions -- would be a staple. But now they have the funds and the time to prepare gourmet meals (she's a cooking fiend!). Of course, being from Maine, they may be concerned if I cooked my lobster any other way than steaming in salt water.
I have read this and it's fabulous. I particularly found his discussion on the current USDA food pyramid to be fascinating. He talks about what a political process it was (that's why you won't see a distinction made between red meat and legumes in the protein category; wouldn't want to tick off the beef industry, you know!). He also sheds light on how difficult it is to study the effect of diet and nutrition -- you have to rely on people to do the things they say they're going to do!
Add a few drops to some melted butter and toss with air-popped popcorn. For a truly truffley treat, get some truffle salt and toss that with the popcorn as well!
All kids' food commercials are annoying, disgusting, insulting, etc.
But I think the very worst food ads of all are the Carl's Jr. ads where people are eating a 7500 calorie "meal" in the hugest, barely chewed bites possible, talking with their mouths full, with food running down their faces -- uuuugggggghhhh!!! Not sure if Hardee's as they're known in the East runs the same ads or not, but truly the most offensive advertising ever.
And, ohmgosh... re Sonic commercials... we find those hysterical... um... in a totally dumb, ashamed of ourselves way. My husband originally hails from TN where there are tons of Sonics (a nice option since there's no In-n-Out there... yet...).
My favorite Sonic commercial... when the guy orders a wuh-rap, other guy corrects his pronunciation, they argue about whether it's Rench or Wuh-rench... Wuh-rong!
We still say wuh-rong and wuh-right around here. Pathetic, I know, but you never know what will tickle you.
;-p
First of all, the "Fourth Meal" commercials for Taco Bell...as if Americans didnt already have a fat-ass stereotype, we need to promote the idea of adding another full meal onto the day? And have it be from Taco Bell? Ugh.
Also, these arent necessarily bad commercials but I never understand why Sonic spends so much money advertising in New York City when the closest restaurant is 7 hours away in southern Virginia. But yes, I know thats where it is, which means I've checked...because those commercials made me want it!
How about the "it's time to get back to natural" mayonnaise commercials? It all starts out sounding so healthy, "It's time to get rid of unnatural ingredients in our food" "It's time to be healthier", "It's time for natural" blah blah and then, "It's time for MAYONNAISE"
mmmmmmm
Healthy!
Tyler Florence smilingly telling me how he 'created' Applebee's steak entree with onion rings and a salad w/ blue cheese annoys me to no end. Does he really thing this dish hasn't been done to death?
I hate the current Little Debbie commercial for cinnamon rolls. The whole family is sitting down to breakfast and everyone has a cinnamon roll except for the youngest child. The child knocks his toy on the floor so that the father will pick it up, allowing the child to steal the dad's cinnamon roll. Then the mom arrive with more cinnamon rolls and everyone enjoys a laugh.
This ad pisses me off because, as a father, I always make sure that my kids are fed before me. The whole commercial makes me grind my teeth.
This is not really related, but I hate Trix commercials. Those darn kids and that stupid rabbit! He's always complaining about how he's white and admiring the myriad colors of Trix (which are a little creepy, IMO), but doesn't he realize that white light is the origin of ALL colors in the spectrum? :( He should take a gander on the bright side and consider himself every color at once.
@roboppy--thanks for defending rathergood's Spongmonkeys! I adore "We like the moon" and when I saw them in the Quizno's commercials I was in heaven. But clearly the majority of the viewing public wasn't in on the joke.
Count me in on the Rachael Ray hatred. I also hate the old Wendy's (?) commercials for their "Chicken Cordon Blue" sandwich, in which the announcer pronounced "cordon" in such a bad French accent that it was as if it was spelled "cordin." I would cringe every time it came on.
There was also a commercial for an energy bar that showed, among other consumers, a woman in mid-run, who said, "To me, food is fuel..." That may be the saddest statement I ever heard as a testimonial.
@roboppy--thanks for defending rathergood's Spongmonkeys! I adore "We like the moon" and when I saw them in the Quizno's commercials I was in heaven. But clearly the majority of the viewing public wasn't in on the joke.
Count me in on the Rachael Ray hatred. I also hate the old Wendy's (?) commercials for their "Chicken Cordon Blue" sandwich, in which the announcer pronounced "cordon" in such a bad French accent that it was as if it was spelled "cordin." I would cringe every time it came on.
There was also a commercial for an energy bar that showed, among other consumers, a woman in mid-run, who said, "To me, food is fuel..." That may be the saddest statement I ever heard as a testimonial.
@Adam: thanks for the consideration. I suspect I'm much older that you are. I like "curmudgeon" because it sounds better than "dinosaur" (which I've been called for years). But curmudgeon though I be, I am not resident: the title is yours. Your posts are wonderful.
@Lou: You can still be the "resident curmudgeon." I'll come up with a different title for myself when going into "official" copy-edit mode.
@eat2love: You may be onto something there.
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